A Live Podcast Event with Rosanna Bruno, Ella Haselswerdt, Ferdia Lennon, and Naomi Weiss
Date: Thursday, April 16, 2026
Time: 6:30 p.m. EST
Location: Center for Hellenic Studies, 3100 Whitehaven St. NW, Washington, DC 20008 and via Zoom
Join us for an episode of Ancient Greece Today, a new podcast to be launched by CHS in Spring 2026! Hosted by Naomi Weiss (Professor of the Classics, Harvard University), this podcast brings together scholars, artists, and practitioners to explore the ancient Greek world and how it is used and reimagined in the present day. The first season is about Greek tragedy, both the ancient plays themselves and some of their most recent adaptations across different media. The final episode, on Euripides’ Trojan Women, will be recorded with a live audience at CHS.
Euripides’ Trojan Women, first produced in 415 BCE, has long been considered an anti-war play—a devastating portrayal of the past, present, and future suffering of war’s female victims. In the modern era, productions and adaptations of the play have often reflected on contemporary conflicts, from Korea to Vietnam to Syria. But this is not the only way scholars and artists have interpreted and reimagined Euripides’ tragedy: it is also, for example, about female relationships and forms of agency, and about the power of artistic innovation in the face of brutality and loss. In this panel discussion about the play, Weiss will be joined by Rosanna Bruno (artist and illustrator ofEuripides’ Trojan Women: A Comic), Ferdia Lennon (bestselling author of Glorious Exploits), and Ella Haselswerdt (Assistant Professor of Classics, UCLA).